Review Sheet for Graduate Music Theory Placement Exam School of Music

University of Louisiana, Lafayette

I. Given a note, write a specified interval above it.

II. Given a triad or seventh-chord quality and one member of the chord, notate the rest of

the chord.

III. Analyze a chorale by J.S. Bach using Roman numerals and figured bass symbols.

Label all non-chord tones. Knowledge of secondary dominants/leading tone chords is

needed.

IV. Analyze given chord progressions using Roman numerals and figured bass.

Knowledge of Neapolitan chords, augmented sixth chords, and secondary

dominants/leading tone chords is required.

V. Given a starting chord and specific chords that follow, compose a four-part chorale

passage. Knowledge of voice-leading practices with Neapolitan chords, augmented sixth

chords, and secondary dominants/leading tone chords is required.

VI. Write a short answer describing and defining six given terms pertaining to twentieth-

century music, and identify a composer associated with the terms. The terms are broad

and refer to important aesthetic movements in the 20th

-century.

VII. Provide a diagram of important common formal structures as they are most typically

employed in common-practice art music. Include key schemes.

VIII. Write a short answer describing and defining four important terms that pertain to

eighteenth-century counterpoint.